Ownership change for Cup graduate

Press, 29 August 1989, Page 33

Ownership change for Cup graduate

By

JEFF SCOTT

Cool Charm Girl, which became New Zealand’s newest open class pacer when successful at the Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting last Thursday, had her ownership restructured prior to the win.

Kenwood Stud, Ltd, of Cambridge, who owned a third share in the former Canterbury mare for her North Island Breeders’ Stakes win in July, have since sold its share to the other principals in the ownership, Roydon Lodge Stud, Ltd, of Templeton, and the Mac Classic Racing Syndicate.

The main aim of the consortium of owners was to have a runner qualified for the D.B. Draught New Zealand Cup in November. They achieved this in only two starts.

For Kenwood Stud and Roydon Lodge Stud, joint owners of the mare’s Most Happy Fella sire, Smooth Fella, the purchase was instigated in April in an attempt to have another Cup class runner by their sire still racing in this country. "With Smooth Fella having so much commercial value, much of his young stock are sold overseas and never get the opportunity to race long enough to attain Cup class rating in New Zealand,” said Steve Wilson, bloodstock representative for Roydon Lodge, yesterday.

The 1984 Auckland Cup winner, Roydon Glen, was the first Cup class performer sired by Smooth Fella, while New Orleans,

fifth in last year’s Auckland Cup when only on a C 9 assessment, was another open class graduate by the same sire last season.

Slugger (1:56.4 at three years), another well-per-formed son of Smooth Fella, was scratched from the 1984 Auckland Cup, but won 10 races and was retired from racing as a four-year-old on a C 9 assessment.

Cool Charm Girl, which set a national mares’ mark for 2700 m (stand) of 3:27.4 in her July success at Alexandra Park, overcoming a 50m handicap, paced the same distance in 3:29.3 from 30m behind in the hands of Brent Mangos last Thursday.

Acquired from the Marshland stable of Steve O’Brien in the autumn, Cool Charm Girl is bred on the same Smooth Fella-Good Chase cross as the fastest New Zealandbred race mare, Smooth Millie, a 1:53.8 performer at the Meadowlands track in New Jersey, North America, three years ago. Cool Charm Girl, herself, paced a fast 1:57.7 winning mile at Ashburton last September for O’Brien.

She is the third foal of Chardon Royal, which won once in eight starts for O’Brien and left a first-up winner in Minder, a sister to Cool Charm Girl.

Chardon Royal’s dam, Emory Lane (by Emory Hanover), was unraced and has left nothing else to make a lasting impression to date.

In fact, her third dam, Sporting Lass (by Stormyway), has not set the Thames on fire at stud either, although she was an unraced sister to Kerry Countess (two wins), the dam of two useful winners and a half-sister to Kerry Star (five wins) Another half-sister, Kerry Queen (five wins), left a former N.Z. three-year-old record holder in Dark Rival (2:2.2), and Kran won five races including the Waikouaiti and Geraldine Cups in the 1969-70 season for Bob Negus, but in recent times this family has not had much luck.

Other good winners in this Wood Nymph branch of the Miss Poole family to which Cool Charm Girl belongs are Certify (six wins including a Westport Cup), Black Rose (Cheviot Cup), and the trotter, Kolmar, which won eight races nearer the turn of the century. The Miss Poole family was founded by the Friedlander family, of Ashburton, in 1889 and has over 20 performers in 2:00. Miss Poole was by the Arab stallion, Blackwood Abdallah.

This has been a good source of smart race mares over the years. The 1979 N.Z. Messenger winner, Tempest Tiger (1:58.5), is also from the Wood Nymph branch of this family, while Spinster Anna (1:55.4 in North America), at one time the fastest N.Z.-bred race mare, Loretta Jane (1:57 and $U5269,554), and Viewfield Lass (1:57.4, U.S.),

have been other notable race mares from the Miss Poole family.

The best on the colt side of this line are Tricky Dick (1:56.8 and $U5460,330), now a successful stud sire, Copper Way (1:55.4), Gramatan, the sire of the 1986 InterDominion Pacing champion, Village Kid, and Viewfield Prince (1:54). Cup eligibles

Cool Charm Girl is one of 21 N.Z. Cup eligibles known to be preparing for the rich November classic.

Of these, five are mares — Gina Rose, Bionic Chance, Michele Bromac, Frangelico and Cool Charm Girl. The list of male contenders is once again headed by last year’s winner, Luxury Liner, while others in training include: Microscopic, Final Offer, Laser Lad, Race Ruler, Kylie’s Hero, Gypsy Vance, Godfrey, Reba Lord, New Orleans, Inky Lord, Dillon Dean, Elmer Gantry, Gaelic Skipper, Sossy, Sir Alba and Rostriever Hanover, the latter joining Pat O’Reilly, junior’s stable last week after completing three months preparatory work with partowner, lan Munro, at his North Otago property. Jim Dalgety, the owner of last season’s champion three-year-old filly, Happy Hazel, has indicated the Alberton mare would not be readied for this year’s cup, while Ankorman is unlikely to be sufficiently forward after suffering a setback over the winter.